AnonMessiah

I thankfully caught mine at stage 1 and had lefty removed just after turning 22

No worries, I'm both, please don't hold it against me.

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There is no discharge of a round with a misfire, at least US terminology, misfiring is synonymous with failure to fire, it happens when the hammer / firing pin is released but the primer is not ignited. There is a stigma around unintentional discharges for a good reason, because it is almost always a _negligent_ discharge and not an _accidental_ discharge, if someone NDs I do not want them around me and a firearm.

Pay people more, if it is important people will pay for it. If you want more people to be electricians create some incentive. Why are so many people ok with the supply and demand as a concept until it's about labor? I have honestly been researching switching to this field because of the things this article talks about, and my desire to work with my hands more, but it doesn't make sense financially. Why would I go to a trade school and sign up to take a pay cut, making $18/hr for four years before I get on average 60k a year after that? With almost no retirement options for when the trades eventually destroy my body, not a lot of extra money to save for retirement, so what's the point?

You need between 4,000 - 10,000 (depending on the state you are licensing in) hours of on the job experience as an apprentice working under a licensed journeyman to get your journeyman license

Yeah, I meant past prime, slimy, partially eaten by slugs etc.

They aren't really 'rare' they just can't be cultivated in captivity at a commercial scale well due to their need for a symbiotic relationship with trees as well as Morels being very picky about their fruiting triggers. I have seen people successfully 'seed' an area by making a slurry by blending molasses, water, and wild foraged morels that were subpar and letting the spores germinate with a water aerator running in the bucket and dumping the slurry in areas on their property that were favorable to Morels.

>"...enslaved more than six-hundred people over the course of his life" Seems to me that if you do own 600 people over the course of your life you, at least implicitly, condone slavery.

I think the only problem I see with this is that most competent bike thieves are going to know what bikes include gps and how to remove/disable it (or to strip it for parts and ditch the frame)

>why is this narrative happening now?

I think that it has a lot to do with the massive resurgence of labor organizing we've seen across the globe; People saw how much bullshit they're forced to deal with while applying for and doing their jobs. Seeing record breaking profits while facing down skyrocketing inflation, in many cases without so much as a COL adjustment, and have had enough. Meanwhile, these companies know, even if they refuse to acknowledge it, that labor creates value; If you can get more value out of something at the same or less cost that makes your bottom line look better, why would they not try and work employees as much as they can for the same price? So now businesses want to make it seem like employees are to blame for refusing to allow themselves to be continually exploited in the same manner, which is why it is framed as 'quiet quitting' instead of 'only doing what they're paid to do'.

I also think that the pandemic/WFH may have given people a reason/time to do some reevaluation of what is important to them, what they want to invest their time into, and what they want to do with their lives generally, and me personally, it isn't to spend my life clicking buttons to make some number somewhere go up.

>quiet quitting—that is, doing only what’s in their job descriptions and no more.

Yeah, Why would I choose to do additional labor for my employer for free?

Is paying the agreed $5 for a $5 item instead of paying $6 'quiet stealing'?

How does more housing ruin a town?

There have been several studies on the correlation between income/wealth and empathy. https://blog.ted.com/6-studies-of-money-and-the-mind/

Merzbow is my preferred "focus time" noise

This, the 14th amendment, doesn't give you the right to vote, this says you can't be denied voting based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude. The 19th amendment says it cannot be denied due to sex, the 24th says there can't be a poll tax, the 26th say you can't be denied because of your age as long as you're over 18. There is no right to vote in the U.S. constitution or Bill of Rights, because the "Founding Fathers" were a bunch or racist elitists who thought that common people were too stupid to look out for their own best interest. EDIT: fixed typos

It reminded me of the Microsoft AI chatbot Tay debacle in 2016

Biggest gang in town.

> wriggling around on the floor on a big dose of LSD for 12 hours is casual clean fun?

Yes.

Businesses are only able to grow to the size of amazon because of the exploitation of the working class' labor and government subsidies. Minimum wage and unemployment aren't an artificial constraints, they are things that workers have exercised their collective strength in to win concessions from their employers via labor organizing and collective action. It's the same reason we (generally) have an 8 hour work day, a 5 day work week, holidays off, safety requirements, workman's comp, and child labor laws to name a few things.

Edit: fixed typo.

I would argue wage labor, and capitalism as a whole, are inherently exploitative. I came from a manual labor background; Ranch hand, construction, metal fab, which is why I'm so passionate about this. I'm used to being paid $~15/hr to do very physically demanding work, knowing that the contracts are often 10-15k for a job a crew of four guys can knock out in a day or two, including labor and materials the expense is ~3-5k plus indirect costs (tools, trucks, taxes etc.), so why shouldn't the remainder of the profit go to the people that generated it? I understand the margins are thinner in most retail and service situations but the same logic can be applied. If you were losing money on an employee, or even just breaking even, would you keep them on they payroll?

If your business model isn't sustainable without exploiting your workers your business doesn't deserve to be open. "They don’t provide enough value" - labor is the thing that creates value.

The working class seizing the means of production and the destruction of wage labor.

It sounds like your argument is to make fuel and power more expensive? How does that not disproportionately harm poor communities, and how is that not just a carbon tax with extra steps?

EDIT: I'm not trying to be an ass or "Getcha", just trying to see where you're coming from.

My bad, Post 9-11.

I've accidentally taken knives and ammunition through TSA in a carry-on bag, but the only thing they've ever stopped me over was steel toed boots in my bag. Right after 9-11 my dad went on a trip and after getting off of the plane, put his coat on and realized he had two six inch box knives in the pockets, the only thing they took from his bag was his shampoo.

We continue to see capitalism choose profit over the health and wellbeing of _every_ living thing on the planet. Industries suppressing anything that paints them in a bad light, lobbying to get laws favoring them passed, and ignoring and actively lying about the long term harm that they perpetuate so they can have _number go up_ in their bank statements.

Vuwu?